03-31-2016, 03:21 PM
By the way, that divergence between productivity and median wages, while not exclusively a US problem, it's really most extreme in the US. See how middle classes elsewhere have fared:
![[Image: 191022_14527966182417_3.png]](https://staticseekingalpha.a.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/2016/1/191022_14527966182417_3.png)
This is remarkable, for more see here, as it will be shown that:
![[Image: 191022_14527966182417_3.png]](https://staticseekingalpha.a.ssl.fastly.net/uploads/2016/1/191022_14527966182417_3.png)
This is remarkable, for more see here, as it will be shown that:
- Didn't come at the cost of jobs in France
- Globalization isn't likely to be the main driver, as France, the UK and Japan are all more open economies.

